Bullet-time lightsaber duels! 
Drooolā¦
I swear thatās got to be a put-on. Heās tried so hard to learn every other facet of the American way, youād think heād be finished with the accent by now. I bet when heās alone with Maria he says: āThat was a wicked pissa of a pahty tonight, wasnāt it de-ah?ā
Hmmā¦ would the governator speak with a closet Boston liberal accent? I wonder. I thought heād be more of a southernerā¦ in both his gentle demeanor and ranch-owning, truck driving ways. Can you imagine, if the Terminator comes back in time to warn Sarah Connor of the impending ānukular terā?
:eek: ā¦ ROTFLOL!
In my touchstones of Western Literature class, I was falling asleep while writing an essay for an assigned readingāGenesisāand I hope you all donāt mind, but stole/borrowed your ideas from the podcast so I could go out of my way to insert a Matrix Reloaded reference. What am I doing here!!? I should stop blowing off my homework and finish it.
Exactly.
No, seriously, German passport, German parents.
Iāve never actually heard her talkā¦ or didnāt pay any attention when she didā¦
(fwiw, youāre three hours from the border. How different could you sound?)
WHAT!?! Blasphemy!
Really, I mean, weāre talking about Europe here, you travel three hours and you could encounter five different languages in some places. Languages that in themselves have an abounding variety of dialects - not only accents, but actual dialects.
In this case, itās true that the Austrian dialect and the Bavarian dialect both belong to a subdivision of the German language that I would āSouth German language areaā and that also includes the Swabian dialects (the Southwest, bordering on France) and Swiss German. But theyāre all very distinct dialects. Three hours, my sorry barb, in many places you can travel ten minutes to the next village and find a discernibly different dialect. And the differences between Bavarian German and Austrian German are as big as between Scottish English and Irish English, just for comparison.
But thatās just one side of the coin, the other has to do with historical antipathies that reach back a millennium. But thatās a story for another day.
Switching teacher mode off nowā¦
WHAT!?! Blasphemy!
Without Project Runway we wouldnāt have Sixās red dress!
or Colonial Flight Suit for that matter.
Lucky, Reporting in/
Big mistake. Apparently the professor despises the Matrix Trilogy. Worth it though? Definitely. I mean, itās not like I often find the opportunity to throw in a matrix reference into a mind numbingly boring class.
/end of report
Give 'em hell, Lucky. The world needs more sci-fi references in its literary criticism.
P.S. Whatās with the cartoon caricatures and the new dogtags? What am I missing?
For the cartoon characters go to he Manga thread in the off topic discussion area. Thereās a link on the first post. It would be great to see what you come up withā¦
Edit: Here is the first post:
We critics do what we canā¦
Though I find most of my sci-fi references are during class or in casual conversation, rather than in my own papers. 
ARRGHH! Canāt get faceyourmanga.com to load! The connection keeps timing out!
Thanks for the link anyway, Phil.
I had to use Firefox instead of IE to get it to work!
They seem to be down right now.
Maybe accent is stored in muscle mass.
Nice
So youāre adopted then? 
Iāve never actually heard her talkā¦ or didnāt pay any attention when she didā¦
(in all honesty, her accent is barely perceptible now, certainly nothing like this clip)
WHAT!?! Blasphemy!
Really, I mean, weāre talking about Europe here, you travel three hours and you could encounter five different languages in some places. Languages that in themselves have an abounding variety of dialects - not only accents, but actual dialects.
In this case, itās true that the Austrian dialect and the Bavarian dialect both belong to a subdivision of the German language that I would āSouth German language areaā and that also includes the Swabian dialects (the Southwest, bordering on France) and Swiss German. But theyāre all very distinct dialects. Three hours, my sorry barb, in many places you can travel ten minutes to the next village and find a discernibly different dialect. And the differences between Bavarian German and Austrian German are as big as between Scottish English and Irish English, just for comparison.
But thatās just one side of the coin, the other has to do with historical antipathies that reach back a millennium. But thatās a story for another day.
Switching teacher mode off nowā¦
Iām just giving you a hard time (IYKWIM). Iām well aware of the difference. Similarly, the āPenn Dutchā accent prevalent around here is dramatically different from that of New Jersey, also just three hours awayā¦
They prob got Dugg or mentioned by Leo Laporte or something, theyāve been down for a while now.
Okay, Seanās rant about the Architect being a pissed-off artist was the greatest rant ever!
Hey everybody.
Chuck I just wanted to back you up when you said that Audra would be getting emails and posts regarding her comment about āastoundingly arrogant, even for an architect.ā
Iām an architect (and yes Sean at times I am a pissed off, frustrated artist) and I have lots of architect friends - and most arenāt arrogant.
Any other architects out there want to give a shout out?
PS - Love the podcasts, Iām new to them and this is my first post to the forumā¦hence my user name.
PPS - No hard feelings Audra, but when I heard that comment and Chucks followup I just HAD to post to the forum.
You must be young, then.
Welcome aboard, and please stick around.
A college friend of mine just told me āgetting older, but trying to stay youngā which seems about right. Weāre in our mid thirtiesā¦so we arenāt completely jadedā¦yet
Thanks for the welcome Pike - are you a fellow AIAer?
Iāll see what I can contribute to the discussion.
Itās been a few years since I last watched Revolutions, but my theory at the time was the council elder was the previous āone.ā I figured that he got to pick a few close friends/family to bring with him into the next version of the matrix. So that was why everyone on the council was old - they came from the last ācropā of people. Just enough to populate a new matrix/crop.
One other thing that was mentioned in the podcast was the idea of the residual self image. I have a 10 month old son, and I wonder when he sees himself in the mirror - does he see himself or just another baby? I think heās too young to know what he looks like, so why did the machines program the mirrors to āreflectā the image of the person to them?
I know from a practical standpoint they were actors, but from a sci-fi point they must have had some kind of sensor that could tell what a plugged in human looked like in the ātea cupā and then had to program the digital image of the person for everyone else to see - including the mirrors so the person would know what they looked like.
Wouldnāt that be a trip if you woke up from the real world and found out you werenāt anything like you thought? What if you thought you were a guy and it turns out you were a girl? Would your residual self image remain as it was?
hmmmmmā¦